Isaiah 41:10 - Al Will Strengthen You and Help You: Official 2016-17 Boston Celtics Season Thread

How Far Do The Celtics Go This Season?


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jaguar paw

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Let's get some unbiased opinions.

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Smart vs. Bradley? Who would you rather have/who's the best player? :jbhmm:


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Now who else wanna fukk with Hollywood Court?
@Malta does have a bias against smart he's an exum Stan


I don't have bias against Smart, you just @ me all the time about him like I've been talking badly about him just because I thought Exum had a higher ceiling during the draft.

You got it in your mind that anyone that didn't view Smart as better than Wiggins and Embiid in that draft needs to be @'d all the time :manny:
 

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I don't have bias against Smart, you just @ me all the time about him like I've been talking badly about him just because I thought Exum had a higher ceiling during the draft.

You got it in your mind that anyone that didn't view Smart as better than Wiggins and Embiid in that draft needs to be @'d all the time :manny:

You're exaggerating

We are in disagreement about Smart's ceiling
 

William F. Russell

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Good win tonight. Isaiah balled out as usual. Marcus came up with some key defensive stops. Horford is looking like he's finally finding his place in this squad. James Young actually playing decent.

Despite our slow start to the season, we're firmly in 2nd in the East and we've been on a good run of form.
 

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Avery Bradley > Marcus Smart all day and twice on Sunday. Avery can create his own offense, is a much better shooter (better shot selection and shooting percentage), and, of course, he's a better defender (All Defensive First Team player). If both are healthy, Avery starts and Smart comes off the pine.

With that said, however, Smart is a very good defensive player and he has improved offensively, even though he can be frustrating as hell with the ball. His play-making and court vision has dramatically improved since the start of the season and if he keeps improving, he can be an important player for a winning/contending team.
 

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Avery Bradley is the odd man out. He needs to be traded while his value is high, period. After next year Isaiah and Avery will be free agents, and fukk breaking the bank for 2 undersized guards. We're gonna give Isaiah deserved big time money. But Avery is not worth what he is going to command on the market. He's become a very good jump shooter and is a good defender. I don't think he's as good of a defender as people say he is. He also seems to always get hurt. At this moment he is better than Marcus . But Marcus is bigger, stronger, 4 years younger, is a better defender and creator than Avery, and could be signed for much less than Avery. Marcus does do a lot of bonehead stuff, but he also does so many things to help a team win.

I say we trade Avery, and filler (Young, Zeller, maybe even Rozier etc.) for a quality big man. Then we either use the Brooklyn pick to draft the eventual Avery replacement (Fultz, Ball, or Jackson), or offer the pick for Jimmy Butler. Marcus stays and resumes being the third guard. Only thing that could fukk this scenario up is if Brooklyn starts winning and does not ending up having the worst record in the league, or we end up getting fukked out of a top 3 pick in the lottery.
 
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